San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-04-27
EDITORIAL BREVITIES

hDiIOhlAL BhENlIIES
THERE will be struggle 10 the next
congress for repeal of the interstate
commerce law. or this fact all signs
give abundant evidence.
SAN ANTONIO can show more good rea-
sons why the state military enCampment
should be held here, than any other city
In Texas.
Miss ALICE JORDAN has been admitted
to practice at the bar Of the Michigan
superior court. This lady was made l..
l.. B. at Yale last year. In this connec-
ton that means Little Legal Beauty.
The divorce business gets In Its work
on the short haul at Philadelphia. A
man who was married there at s O'Clock
divorced himself with bullet and left
his wife widow one hour later.
FoRT SCoTT strikes natural gas at 800
feet; Fort Worth finds 1t In unlimite d
supply on the surface. Kansas cannot
compete with Texas.
SAN ANTONIO will have an opinion and
an ordinance defining iron-clad build
ings, rs soon as the city attorney reports
and council adopts report.
The Farmers Alliances, of Bexar
county, are following suit and initiating
the action Of the northern alliances In
putting their store orders with the firm
that will bid lowest for their trade.
The |. o. o. f. was sixty-eight years
old yesterday, at least the American
section Of il, and the anniversary was
duly observed in May of the subordi-
nate lodges of the three-liDked brethren
In this state.
If neither Davis nor Beauregard are
ohOked of, the people of the United
States may get an inkling of some OF the
inner workings Of the confederaOy,
which 1t was never Intended should
reach the light Of day.
HoUsToN has organized a real estate
exchange, and is moving for merchants
exchange, or board of trade. Houston
Is wise and the cities which follow her
lead In these things will not be foolish.
IT is lawful to bet in New York on a
race course for 30 days out OF the 1865.
That is the limit according TO the legis-
lature. Outside OF these 30 race DAYS
betting and pool selling are illegal.
ORGANIZATION among the agricultural
classes OF Texas is progressing more
rapidly than with any other class of la
bOrers. The producers see 1t to their in
terest TO combine, not only in erder to
dispose Of their farm products advsn-
tageously, but In order to buy their sup
plies at the lowest possible rates
CHICAGO having had such good luck in
her anarchist trials is not willing to turn
her bOOdlers over to any other county,
and will try them at home. Judge Tul-
ley refuses application for change OF
venue.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL snubbed a re-
porter who on last Saturday wanted to
know how long Mr.. Russell was going
to be in Europe, and now the epithets
are coming to the front. Russell told
the reporter that 1t was nobOdy's bust
ness but his own, and the reporter got
huffy.
ST. LOUIS will have the grandest
workingmen's parade on May LIST, that
has ever taken place near the big bridge.
All the trades unions and the Knights Of
Labor assemblies will be In line and
moving on that day. The procession
will be so long that Chicago can view it
with a spy-glass.
No eviction In Ireland WAS ever more
he.rtless, unjust and cruel, or inflicted
greater suffering and hardship than this
eviction OF bona.fide settlers from the
Crow reservation by order OF Grover
Cleveland. Poor widows, whose all was
on their farms, were forcibly removed by
the soldiers and dumped down at the
railway station to starve.
DR.. MCGLYNN has maintained a very
judicious silence sinct his suspension by
the archbishop. He has had no hearing,
no opportunity to state his case before
the tribunal, and ifthe report of his
permanent suspension from his pastoral
Office Ia confirmed, 1t will be sad day
for st. Stephens.
NEW South Wales received her first
consignment of convicrs January 20,
1873. The centennial OF this settlement
Is to be observed In the colony next
January. How many will be anxious to
trace their LINEAGE to this first shipload?
Botany Bay does not bear the charmed
name that Massachusetts bay does.
The Craftsman asserts that the re-
ports OF the robberies on the Panhandle
road are largely the creation OF the fer
tile imaginations Of the detectives, and
that no wholesale plundering has been
done. If the Craftsman Is not drawing
on Its own Imagination for Its facts, the
county will feel relieved. The evidence,
however, is all against the Crsftsman's
position.
DR.. HOFFMAN,, of the bureau Of eth
nology (Amerioan) has received from the
king OF Portugal the order Of st. James,
founded In 1l77. There are but three
European orders that are older, among
those now extant. These are the order
of st. John OfJerusalem, and two Spanish
orders.
"TURN the rascals out" But where
will you begin Mr.. Democrat? The
presidential postofiioes are filed by
democrats, and all the others that are
worth contending for; the democrats
hold all the internal revenue Offices;
every territorial governor is a democrat;
Of the fifty-six presidential appoint
ments in the territories, the president
has changed fOrty-fOuT since coming in
to office, and there is not much more
turning out to be done, unless the pres
ent erib-feeders are ousted for new ones.